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MPMA's quality educational experiences
take you to museums during the conference so you can apply what you
learned in sessions
Tours are ESSENTIAL to your professional training
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_Conference Program_
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ALL-DAY EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
T1 Top of the Rockies: Cultural Treasures and Colorado's Highest Peaks
Get your mountain fix during the conference
T2 Boulder: Art, Nature, History
Visit art galleries, student interactive spaces and the area's newest
museum
T3 Lariat Loop National Scenic Byway
See historic routes and houses, geologic wonders and dinosaur footprints
AFTERNOON EDUCATIONAL EXPERIENCES
T4 Denver History Tour
Western Women / City Shapers
See the Molly Brown House Museum (one of the best in the nation) and hear
insights from CO's best-known women's historians
T5 Visual Arts:
Denver Art Museum
MCA Denver
Museum of Western Art
Visit three nationally-known museums
T6 Nature and Science:
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver Botanical Gardens
Visit two leading scientific research institutions
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you can add tours to an existing registration
For details on each tour, scroll down
WHY TAKE TOURS???
This is about applied knowledge. Get out of the hotel and see how they do
it in Denver. This is your ONLY chance. MPMA tours are ALWAYS good and
you'll learn so much. That's why we have six tours this year. Check_ here _
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But hurry: MPMA tours are popular and fill up fast.
TOUR DETAILS
T1 Top of the Rockies:
Cultural Treasures / Colorado's Highest Peak
Get your mountain fix during the conference
Visit the highest city in the U.S. and see the tallest peak in the
Rockies. On the way up, you'll pass historic towns, mining districts, and the
Climax Molybdenum Mine. Your Leadville experience includes 19th-century
residences and mines from when Leadville competed to become the state’s capital.
In this town of quaint shops and Victorian-style streets, you’ll visit the
Matchless Mine and hear the part it played in the scandalous life of
Silver King Horace Tabor and his wife, “Baby Doe.” Next is the Tabor Opera
House. Built in 1879, this is where celebrities like John Philip Sousa,
Oscar Wilde, Sarah Bernhardt and Harry Houdini graced its stage. The final stop
will be the National Mining Hall of Fame and Museum where you can find out
what it was like to work in a mine where rock was blasted in narrow
passageways deep underground.
Tour Guide: Stephen L. Whittington, Executive Director, National Mining
Hall of Fame and Museum, Leadville, CO; Vice President, MPMA Board of
Directors
T2 Boulder: Art, Nature, History
Visit art galleries, student interactive spaces and the area's newest
museum
The tour starts with a drive up scenic Colorado State Highway 93 right up
against the famous Flatiron rock formations that lead to Boulder and the
University of Colorado campus. The first stop is the CU Art Museum to see
galleries, education areas and a special tour of the vault with Senior
staff. At the CU Museum of Natural History, we’ll explore the Bio Lounge, a
popular exhibit and student interactive and hear Senior staff discuss this
re-imagined biology hall/student lounge and the challenges of changing exhibits
in a constantly evolving space. We’ll see the new Museum of Boulder for a
hard hat tour and hear what staff has to say about the museum’s
transformation from the smaller Boulder History Museum to the larger Museum of
Boulder.
Tour Guides: Maggie Mazzullo, Collections Manager/Registrar, CU Art
Museum; Sharon Tinianow, Assistant Director, CU Museum of Natural History;
Kristen Lewis, Curator of Collections, Museum of Boulder
T3 Lariat Loop National Scenic Byway
See historic routes and houses, geologic wonders and dinosaur footprints
We’ll travel along one of the Denver area’s original auto tours, the
historic Lariat Loop which offers a setting of dense forests, mountain vistas,
winding roads and historic “beauty spots.” We’ll see the only city-owned
bison herd in the world that came originally from Yellowstone National Park
in 1914. Then it is on to Hiwan Museum, an historic house museum in
Evergreen for a behind-the-scenes look at what was once a cherished retreat for
a wealthy family. We’ll take another scenic route through Bear Creek
Canyon to Red Rocks Amphitheater, one of nature’s geologic wonders and premier
concert venues in the world and end our journey at Dinosaur Ridge, the site
of one of the world's most famous dinosaur fossils.
Guides: Tim Sandsmark, Education Supervisor, Jefferson County Open Space
and Director of Lookout Mountain Nature Center; John Steinle, former
History Education Supervisor, Jefferson County Open Space and Director of Hiwan
Museum
T4 Denver History Tour: Western Women /City Shapers
See the Molly Brown House Museum (one of the best in the nation) and hear
insights from CO's best-known women's historians
Throughout history, women who settled in Denver were highly independent
and became civic leaders who turned a rough town into a cultured city. We’ll
explore their stories while seeing historic house museums. Stops include
the Byers Evans House Museum and Molly Brown House Museum - two thriving
historic house museums that use immersive experiences to activate the stories
of uniquely Denver women. We’ll drive past historic locations such as the
Black American West Museum and iconic structures which civic-minded women
helped to build. And, we’ll learn about the women who pioneered models of
historic preservation in a boom and bust city.
Tour guides: Dr. Marcia T. Goldstein, Colorado Women’s Historian, Denver,
CO; Andrea Malcomb, Museum Director, Molly Brown House Museum, Denver, CO.
T5 Visual Arts
Denver Art Museum
MCA Denver
Museum of Western Art
Visit three nationally-known museums
Get a taste of Denver’s diverse visual arts offerings with this
three-museum tour. We’ll visit Denver Art Museum, one of the largest art museums
between Chicago and the West Coast. The next stop is the American Museum of
Western Art, located in the historic Navarre Building. This permanent home of
the Anschutz Collection boasts over 300 paintings that provides an in-depth
survey of Western art and showcases the history and beauty of the American
West. The final stop is the Museum of Contemporary Art Denver (MCA
Denver). Featuring regional, national and international artists, MCA Denver
offers exhibitions that promote creative experimentation with art and ideas and
has established itself
as an innovative forum for a culturally engaged community. Head up to the
top floor’s terrace bar for a cocktail.
Tour Guide: Sarah Kate Baie, Director of Programming, MCA Denver
T6 Nature and Science
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Denver Botanical Gardens
Visit two leading scientific research institutions
Denver Botanic Gardens is a living museum with a wide range of gardens and
collections on 24 acres featuring plants from all over the world.
Distinctive gardens define and celebrate a Western identity and a unique
high-altitude climate and geography. Discover this urban oasis with a docent as your
guide or take a self-guided tour. Next explore the Denver Museum of Nature
& Science (DMNS) - -one of the country’s leading natural history
museums---in this exclusive behind-the-scenes tour. Check out some of the Museum’s
1.4 million artifacts and collections items, ranging from Zoology to
Anthropology and Paleontology, in the brand-new, state-of-the-art Avenir
Collections Center. Your guides will be members of the DMNS scientific curatorial
and collections team who will be ready to engage with you throughout your
visit.
Tour Guides: Rachel V. Murray, Interpretation and Evaluation Specialist,
Denver Botanic Gardens; Curators from DMNS’ Research Collections
When you register for the conference, enhance your training by taking a
tour. We call them Educational Experiences because this is where you apply
what you learned in the sessions. It is another important level of
learning!!!! Sometimes the big boss doesn't get this. But we do! That's why we
have so many.
See the full list of tours and their times _here. _
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DON'T FORGET OUR SPECIAL SPEAKERS AT THIS YEAR'S CONFERENCE
Lonnie Bunch: Founding Director, National Museum of African American
History and Culture, Washington, D.C.
Maria Marable-Bunch: Director, Education &Public Programs, National
Archives & Records Administration, Washington, D.C.
Barry Petersen: CBS Senior News Correspondent, reporting for CBS Evening
News, CBS This Morning and CBS Sunday Morning
Steve W. Turner: State Historic Preservation Officer/ Executive Director,
History Colorado
Nancy Walsh: Vice President of Partnerships and Programs at the
Denver Museum of Nature & Science
Adam Lerner: Director/Chief Animator, MCA-Denver
Dean Sobel: Director, Clyfford Still Museum
Brian Vogt: President/CEO, Denver Botanical Gardens
John R. Dichtl: President/CEO, American Association for State & Local
History, Nashville, TN
Christoph Heinrich: Frederick and Jan Mayer Director, Denver Art Museum
Ernest House Jr. (Ute Mountain Ute): Executive Director, Colorado
Commission on Indian Affairs Towaoc, CO
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